Rangers, Devils, Isles Get Ready for Great Outdoors in the Bronx

By

Dave Caldwell

Jan. 24, 2014 7:53 pm ET

NEWARK, N.J.—The Devils still had one more game to play Friday before venturing over the Hudson and Harlem rivers to tangle with the Rangers in an outdoor game Sunday at Yankee Stadium. And if anyone was more excited about Friday's game than Sunday's game, it was Joe Whitney, the Devils' 5-foot-6 firecracker of a forward.

On Thursday, the Devils called up Whitney from Albany to play the first NHL game of his career, on the top line that included Travis Zajac and Jaromir Jagr. Whitney, 10 days from turning 26, said he had a...